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Webster 1913 Edition
Muddle
1.
To make turbid, or muddy, as water.
[Obs.]
He did ill to
muddle
the water. L’Estrange.
2.
To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
Epicurus seems to have had brains so
muddled
and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. Bentley.
Often drunk, always
muddled
. Arbuthnot.
3.
To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
[R.]
They
muddle
it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it. Hazlitt.
4.
To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of;
as, to
; also, to perplex; to mystify. muddle
mattersF. W. Newman.
Mud′dle
,Verb.
I.
1.
To dabble in mud.
[Obs.]
Swift.
2.
To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
Mud′dle
,Noun.
A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.
We both grub on in a
muddle
. Dickens.
Webster 1828 Edition
Muddle
MUD'DLE
,Verb.
T.
He did ill to muddle the water.
1.
To intoxicate partially; to cloud or stupefy, particularly with liquor. He was often drunk, always muddled.
Epicurus seems to have had his brains muddled.